Green Belt Course Topics

Six Sigma Green Belt Topics
Lesson Topic
Overview A top-level overview of the topics covered in this course
Why Six Sigma? An interactive lesson to answer an important question
Recognizing an Opportunity Linking your Black Belt activities to the organization’s vision and goals
Choosing the Project-Pareto Analysis How to pick a winning project using Pareto Analysis
Assessing Six Sigma Projects How to carefully assess Six Sigma project candidates to assure success
Develop Project Plan Lesson 1 Team selection and dynamics; brainstorming; consensus decision making; nominal group technique
Develop project plan 02-Lesson Stakeholder analysis, communication and planning, cross functional collaboration, and Force Field Analysis
Develop project plan 3-Lesson Obtain a charter for your project
Develop Project Plan Lesson 4-Project Management Work breakdown structures, DMAIC tasks
Develop Project Plan Lesson 5-Project Management Project schedule management
Develop Project Plan Lesson 06-Avoiding and Overcoming Obstacles Obstacle avoidance tactics and management support strategies
high level maps 01 L-Maps, linking project charter Ys to L-Map processes
High level maps 02-SIPOC Mapping the process from supplier to customer
VOC 01 Kano Model, getting the voice of the customer using the critical incident technique
Principles of variation 01-Lesson How will I measure success? Are my measurements trustworthy? Learn about scales of measurement, data types, measurement error principles.
Principles of variation 02-Lesson Enumerative and analytic studies; statistical process control principles; operational definitions
Establish baseline 01-Lesson Descriptive statistics for measuring distribution location, spread, and shape
Establish baseline 02-Lesson Control charts for individual observations and moving ranges
Establish baseline 03-Lesson Control chart pattern analysis
Establish baseline 04-Lesson Continuous probability distributions for Six Sigma: normal, Student’s t.
Establish baseline 05-Lesson Process capability analysis
Establish baseline 06-Lesson Rolled throughput yield, normalized yield, process sigma level
Establish baseline 7-Lesson Create detailed pictures of the as-is process
Test theories with data 01-Lesson Statistical inference
Stratify data 01 – Lesson Data collection and sampling for stratification
Stratify data 02-Drill down tools Data stratification tools: tree diagrams, Pareto analysis, matrix diagrams, check sheets, defect location maps
Stratify data 03-Lesson Distributions-graphical data summaries. Histograms and frequency plots.
Set goals for the outputs 01-Lesson Benchmarking as an aid in goal setting
Set goals for outputs 02-Lesson Project FMEA
Focus problem statement-Opportunity Maps Use activity maps to identify value added activities
Develop theories 01-Lesson Brainstorming, cause-and-effect diagrams (Ishikawa diagrams, fishbone diagrams)
Test theories with data 01-Lesson Testing common assumptions: data type, independence, normality
Test theories with data 02-Lesson Experimentation concepts
Test theories with data 03-Lesson Testing one way classifications: t-tests
Model cause and effect 01-Lesson Correlation analysis, scatter plots
Measurement systems analysis 01-Lesson Analysis of continuous data measurement systems (taught here, but used earlier in actual projects)
Determine improvement strategy 01-Lesson Improvement project planning, pilot study, simulation
Implement 01-Lesson Institutionalize your changes
Implement 02-Lesson Process control planning, process control principles, choosing the process elements to monitor, approaches to process control, and next steps.
Implement 03-Lesson Process deployment maps
Implement 04-Lesson Dashboards for process control and improvement
Implement 05-Lesson Training needs analysis, continuous improvement with KAIZEN, project closure
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Resources for Six Sigma


Introduction to Six Sigma
Six Sigma Projects
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Six Sigma Statistics
Six Sigma Videos (Requires QuickTime)
Leading Six Sigma
Healthcare Quality
Process Excellence Podcasts
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What is Six Sigma?

By Thomas Pyzdek, Author of The Six Sigma Handbook

For Motorola, the originator of Six Sigma, the answer to the question "Why Six Sigma?" was simple: survival. Motorola came to Six Sigma because it was being consistently beaten in the competitive marketplace by foreign firms that were able to produce higher quality products at a lower cost. When a Japanese firm took over a Motorola factory that manufactured Quasar television sets in the United States in the 1970s, they promptly set about making drastic changes in the way the factory operated. Under Japanese management, the factory was soon producing TV sets with 1/20th the number of defects they had produced under Motorola management. They did this using the same workforce, technology, and designs, making it clear that the problem was Motorola's management. Eventually, even Motorola's own executives had to admit "our quality stinks." Read More...